I’m back working on my subversive doily project which has
been a running project for many years that I add to gradually as time allows. I’ve
recently finished writing a couple of papers and a chapter for a book and although
I have a very interesting practice project in the pipeline, the curators are
still finalising the funding so I can’t make a start on it just yet, hence I’m
working on the latest doily. I’ve already finished the central area which includes
the wording (f off in this case, which seems to me just the expression a doily
would use when employed to look attractive, keep quiet and be used as a mat!).
This part of the lace has been worked using Bedfordshire lace techniques, which
I find give me the freedom to work lettering as well as a background of leaves
and plaits. I’m making the wider edge of the doily using a tape lace technique
which means I only need a few pairs to work the lace but I do have to make lots
of joins into previous worked areas so there are pros and cons to the technique
although on balance I think it’s quicker than Bedfordshire, for example, and
the finished results are just as pleasing. It’s certainly good to be getting on
with the project and I hope soon to have made enough doilies to exhibit and
write about them.
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